Details for Fairview
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5493001550
Data
| Marker Number | 1550 |
| Atlas Number | 5493001550 |
| Marker Title | Fairview |
| Index Entry | Fairview |
| Address | FM 536 |
| City | Floresville |
| County | Wilson |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 565687 |
| UTM Northing | 3220673 |
| Subject Codes | cemetery; settlements; law enforcement; rangers; cotton; ghost towns |
| Marker Year | 1988 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | Fairview community. From Floresville, take FM 536 west 12 miles to intersection with FM 2505. Marker reported damaged Dec. 2021. Replacement in progress. |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | Replacement In Progress |
| Marker Size | 27" x 42" |
| Marker Text | Near this crossroads was once the flourishing community of Fairview. The village began shortly after the Civil War, when Henry Hudson opened a store on the Old Oakville Road. A post office was established in the store in 1868. Fairview grew to include homes, churches, doctors' offices, a blacksmith shop, cotton gin, public school, Masonic Lodge, and telephone exchange. The area's economy was based on agriculture, and the main crop was cotton. The advent of the boll weevil and other pests which attacked the cotton crop played a large part in the eventual decline of the town following World War I. Fairview was the hometown of twenty-seven Texas peace officers, including twenty Texas Rangers. Among the Rangers was Frank Hamer (1884-1955), who is best remembered for his role in pursuing notorious Depression-era outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Still remaining and in use in the area is the Fairview Cemetery, originally called the Rock Church Cemetery due to its position next to a Methodist church built in the 1870s. With grave markers dating from the 1860s, it is one of the few remaining physical reminders of the town. (1988) |